Conditioning may refer to:

Science, computing, and technology

  • Air conditioning, the removal of heat from indoor air for thermal comfort
  • Automobile air conditioning, air conditioning in a vehicle
  • Ice storage air conditioning, air conditioning using ice storage
  • Solar air conditioning, air conditioning using solar power
  • Beer conditioning, maturation, clarification, and stabilisation of beer
  • Bottle conditioning, above conditioning after bottling
  • Chemical conditioning, improvement and stabilization chemical components
  • Data conditioning, the use of data management techniques in a computer system
  • Flow conditioning, the study of the movement of fluids in pipes
  • Signal conditioning, manipulating an analog signal in such a way that it meets the requirements of the next stage

Biology and physical fitness

  • Aerobic conditioning, exercise which trains the heart and lungs to pump blood more efficiently
  • Body conditioning via physical exercise

Learning

  • Classical conditioning or Pavlovian conditioning, a behavioral mechanism in which one stimulus comes to signal the occurrence of a second stimulus
  • Eyeblink conditioning, classical conditioning involving pairing of a stimulus with an eyeblink-eliciting stimulus
  • Fear conditioning, classical conditioning involving aversive stimuli
  • Second-order conditioning, a two-step process in classical conditioning
  • Evaluative conditioning, a form of learning in which attitude towards one stimulus is learnt by its pairing with a second stimulus
  • Covert conditioning, classical and operant conditioning in mental health treatment
  • Operant conditioning or instrumental conditioning, a form of learning in which behavior is modified by its consequences
  • Social conditioning, operant conditioning training individuals to act in a society

Mathematics

  • Condition number also known as Conditioning (numerical analysis), a quantity describing whether or not a numerical problem is well-behaved
  • Conditioning (probability), a concept in probability theory

See also

  • Conditioning regimens in transplantation